Hey Attila,

thx for the info.

As mentioned, I have the same with the Puppet plugin. I only wanted to use the 
plugin  for syntax highlighting pp files and some other features, but it finds 
the vagrant.pp and init.pp file and changes the project type to a puppet 
project, which makes the project unusable as a HTML5 project. See here the 
ticket: https://github.com/tropyx/NetBeansPuppet/issues/27.

So again, there is the feature of activating/deactivating NodeJS support for a 
HTML5 project, which changes the Icon and I think some of behaviours. So why 
not activating/deactivating other project features? Like Maven or Gradle or 
whatever? Yes maybe the background process could be a problem.


Cheers

Chris



Von: Attila Kelemen
Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. Januar 2019 16:49
An: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org
Betreff: Re: Activating project type features in different project type

Actually, I have had mutliple complaints about this in the past. Almost
always (the exceptions were, when there are multiple build tools
temporarily, due to porting between build tools), the issue was the
presence of the `package.json` (implying a particular project type). That
said, I don't know who this could be safely changed in NB. If it were only
this JS project type, then I guess there is not much conflict because there
could be a wrapper for `Project` merging all project types volunteering to
accept that project. However, if it is say Ant+Maven+Gradle, then they will
have lots of conflicting queries on the project lookup. If the user could
essentially change whose lookup is proxied, then it might work in theory
but who knows what backgroud process may break because it assumes project
type permanence. Though I could say, that I tried to not rely on that, I
saw in many plugins that this is not usually the case and people heavily
build on the assumption (implicitly) that project types do not change.

So, I'm not very optimistic that this could be changed. Making a special
case for JS projects seem more plausible.

Attila Kelemen

Emilian Bold <emilian.b...@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. jan. 22., K,
10:13):

> > At the end, I need to find a proper solution for that, I can’t be the
> only one who has this problem. I already have it with 3 projects.
>
> You are literally the only one to have ever complained about this. At
> least from what I can remember.
>
> Having a user-configurable priority for project types might make
> sense, I guess. But you could also just disable modules entirely and
> the the support goes away (I guess this is what a project 'switcher'
> would do?)
>
> I'm just not certain this is something the IDE should support specifically.
>
> As an implementation detail: I worked a fair bit last year with the
> Project API and implementation. There are a lot of assumptions there
> that you might need to tweak in order to recognise multiple Projects
> for a FileObject. This will not be an easy PR to make.
>
> And it doesn't even look to me like you want to pick *one* project,
> you want an amalgam of features from various project types.
>
> --emi
>
> http://coolbeans.xyz/ - CoolBeans: An IDE for Java, JavaEE, PHP and more!
>
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:59 AM Christian Lenz <christian.l...@gmx.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > there is a Long discussion going on here:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-1802
> >
> > In short, I have the problem that NetBeans, forces me into one project
> type (here maven) when there are two or more files/folders of different
> Project types (pom.xml, package.json, etc.). So my case I have a project
> with a pom.xml and a package.json and NetBeans opens that project as maven.
> Which is not correct. But removing the pom.xml is not working, because I
> need it. So I preferred a project type switcher, but in the end as Geertjan
> and Milos already said, that doesn’t make sense. So in general it would be
> good to activate features from one project type into the other but not all
> at the same time. Because this will be a mess, mixed HTML5/JS Actions with
> Maven Actions, build/run will not work, because which will win?
> >
> > There is another discussion with Geertjan and Milos but in private, I
> will summerize some Infos here:
> >
> > TLDR;
> > Milos wrote:
> >
> > „Yeah, not really much to add there that wasn't already mentioned in
> https://github.com/tropyx/NetBeansPuppet/issues/27 .
> > project types are semi-automatically identified by certain files in a
> directory and each directory can be exactly one project type. That's a core
> feature of netbeans project system. To allow switching you woud need to
> create one project type to bind them all. But really, you don't want a
> project type switcher, you want features from one project type in the other
> project type. That's how maven war/ear/ejb/apisupport support works,
> bridging editor features for certain content and have them available in the
> other. That's generally quite a bit of work for individual features and
> sometimes the bridging could be shady.
> >
> > Alternatively you can just rewire your content to be 2 projects in 2
> directories. There still could be rough edges to it but it's likely the
> easiest way out.
> >
> > Milos“
> >
> >
> > Me again:
> >
> > „That could be another thing. As I said like the feature
> activation/deactivation which is already possible in HTML5 -> NodeJS. I can
> activate/deactivate nodejs features.
> >
> > But I don’t want all features of both project types in one project. That
> will be a mess of actions shown in the context menu. To many project
> options, because now we have 2 projects. And what will happen for
> build/run? What will win? I will hit run or build and for me I need to
> change the building pipeline to node with grunt/gulp or npm and not using
> maven for this. So yes, It would be nice to have features from one project
> into the other one, BUT I will decide by my own whether I want them or not.“
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > So here is my proposal how that could work:
> >
> > I prefer not being a dominant project, because the plugin for puppet
> dominants in this case. If there are problems with some projects with 2
> different project types, I would expect a warning on the project with an
> Icon of a non specific project type and the exclamation mark as we have it
> for other projects with problems, that I can resolve (Missing dependencies,
> missing NPM installed, missing Bower, etc.).
> >
> > If I resolve such a project I can choose which project type I want, by
> my own, not by NetBeans (Only for multiple project types). And when I
> choose one, for example HTML5, it should be saved as my default. And with
> this project type which could be maven and my saved HTML5, I should
> add/activate Maven features, because it is possible of that specific type
> of project.
> >
> >
> > At the end, I need to find a proper solution for that, I can’t be the
> only one who has this problem. I already have it with 3 projects.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Chris
>
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